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2024 Budget: Further Disagreements Within the FPM

This Is Beirut, 2024-01-24 14:24 - Reading : less than a minute

Free Patriotic Movement

Heated debate within the Free Patriotic Movement. Members of former President Michel Aoun's party have fallen prey to political dissent, increasingly so since Aoun’s son-in-law, Gebran Bassil, took control of the group in 2015. The last conflict to date was about the need for boycotting, or not, Wednesday’s parliamentary session aimed at ...

Uncertainty Surrounds FPM's Decision to Participate in Budget Session

This Is Beirut, 2024-01-23 21:11 - Reading : less than a minute

Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil

The Strong Lebanon Bloc of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) has decided to tie its participation in parliamentary sessions and the vote on the budget to the deliberations that will take place during these sessions. Parliament is set to convene on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss and vote on the 2024 budget. Gebran Bassil, chief of the said ...